[PATCH] first in a series to enhance microcode patches

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Wed Oct 6 05:20:37 EST 2004


On Oct 5, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   (after a short discussion with tom rini, we're going to ignore any 
> previous patch submissions of mine WRT microcode patches and start 
> fresh.  first trivial patch, just to start things off.)

No, send a whole patch that _does_ something.  Let's see all of these
changes at once.  By itself, this patch is useless and doesn't add any
features, it just wastes our time discussing it.

>   2) redeclares reserved chunks in structures to be in terms of a
>      standard char array, rather than the hideous combination of uint,
>      ushort, and so on.  (a purely aesthetic fix, admittedly.)

Just for information, most of the original data structures were all
machine generated with some minor manual touch ups.  I certainly
wasn't going to type in all of that stuff and risk mistakes with offsets
and sizes.

Thanks.

	-- Dan




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